It's That Time

 Weather has cooperated so all the farmers are haying their fields.  The field behind our house is being finished today.

There are two tractors out there today.  One is fluffing the cutting into long mounds and the other is gathering it into rounded bales.  This is different from other years when they did rectangular bales.

There's a strip of grass they never mow between us and the field.

Iris Thanks

Thank you to whoever lived here before and planted these peach iris. I looked back at my journal and discovered they had bloomed my first spring here in 2021. The clump below was planted here by me and judging from the numbers of blooms they love the spot.

Below are some in probably their original spot.  At least I think these will be the same color.

Thank you to Joy down the street who brought me a sack of tubers when I admired her yellow ones.  Here's the first bloom of this season.

Thank you to Vicki who sent me tubers to her white iris. Last year they were set to bloom but hit with frost.  This is the first spring I get to see their blooms.

Next year will be an even bigger display.

A thank you to Debbie the mother of a good friend of my daughter Sarah.  When she and her daughter visited here to see Sarah in June 2021 she brought these lovely light blue Siberian iris (or are they Japanese iris?).  I planted them in a temporary spot and last year moved them to an expanded deck garden where they get full sun. 

The last thank you goes out to my late mother in law who in 2006 gave me a bag of iris tubers to plant at our new home, The Lodge.  When we moved from there in 2016 Sarah took tubers from the garden and planted them at her apartment. I helped her move them to their backyard when they moved to their first house.  Then when they moved to Buffalo I took some and temporarily planted them in a raised bed at the retirement home set aside for residents.  In June 2020 I dug them up and we drove them to Buffalo where Sarah and family had moved to a new house after a short stint in an apartment.  I planted them for her.

When we moved here to a house I took some tubers from Sarah's garden in 2022 or 23.  Below is the first blooms I have had from these well traveled tubers.

Below are the iris I planted at Sarah's in Buffalo 4 years ago.  Look how they spread. I have the light purple one but would also like the deep purple one.  

When I collected tubers from her they were no longer in bloom.  

She has one of these in a pot which she will share with me.

Have iris well traveled.

Yesterday

 Blossoms and the view on a walk.

And then there was this bird condo,

New Faces in my Garden

 Monday brought out these new faces to smile at me.

First iris blooms.

Many more to open.

Funny thing about these irises, I have no recollection of where they came from.  They may have been here but in a different location and I moved them without knowing their color.  They are lovely.  More irises to open up soon including a white one from blogger Vicki.

This is a new flower for me and for this season according to the garden center where I purchased this.  Tag below. I planted it on Mother's Day and it had that bud.  It took this long to open.

Not sure why these wave petunias are speckled unless it was the spray from my insect repellant.  Black flies are bad this year.

Chive blossoms are always lovely.

I know these little flowers as million bells.

These volunteers just keeping coming up here despite the weeding. Name escaping me at present.  I have other clumps that have yet to bloom.

This is the first year for my lupine to bloom.  I think there's a white flower coming too.

And I planted dahlias last week and this one has broken through the ground already.  They love this soil.